I followed this question JavaScript get clipboard data on paste event (Cross browser) to get the pasted data from the clipboard, but I used jquery instead. Now that I got the data, I removed all html tag. But I don't know how to paste it.
element
is a contenteditable div
element.on('paste', function (e) {
var clipboardData, pastedData;
e.preventDefault();
// Get pasted data via clipboard API
clipboardData = e.clipboardData || window.clipboardData || e.originalEvent.clipboardData;
pastedData = clipboardData.getData('Text').replace(/<[^>]*>/g, "");
// How to paste pasteddata now?
console.log(pastedData);
});
I found the answer and I am gonna share it. In order to sanitize the clipboard from html tags, you should paste this:
element.on('paste', function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var text;
var clp = (e.originalEvent || e).clipboardData;
if (clp === undefined || clp === null) {
text = window.clipboardData.getData("text") || "";
if (text !== "") {
text = text.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, "");
if (window.getSelection) {
var newNode = document.createElement("span");
newNode.innerHTML = text;
window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0).insertNode(newNode);
} else {
document.selection.createRange().pasteHTML(text);
}
}
} else {
text = clp.getData('text/plain') || "";
if (text !== "") {
text = text.replace(/<[^>]*>/g, "");
document.execCommand('insertText', false, text);
}
}
});
Credit: l2aelba
Might be easier to let the paste proceed and update element immediately after. Would depend on use case also as cursor position could be lost this way
$(':input').on('paste', function (e) {
var $el = $(this);
setTimeout(function () {
$el.val(function(){
return this.value.replace(/foo/g, "bar");
})
});
})
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p>foo was here</p>
<textarea></textarea>
Well, it depends on what element are you going to paste in. You could use jQuery or native Javascript to achieve!
Maybe like
$(targetNode).append(pastedData)
or
document.getElementById('targetNode').innerText = pastedData